The Kingmaker
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MatureOngoing5h 39m
Last published Mon, Jul 13, 2026
Detective Ava Moreno has spent years hunting monsters in New York City. Corrupt politicians. Violent criminals. Men powerful enough to bury bodies beneath money and silence.
Then the Kingmaker killings begin.
Every victim is connected by secrets no one is supposed to uncover. Every crime scene holds the same message: a black chess king left behind like a warning.
And every trail somehow leads back to Luca Moretti.
Beautiful. Dangerous. Untouchable.
The heir to one of the most powerful families in the city should be Ava's prime suspect. Instead, he becomes the one person who seems to understand the darkness growing beneath New York better than anyone else.
But the closer Ava gets to Luca, the more the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur.
Because in a city built on corruption, monsters aren't born.
They're made.
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